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Malcolm McKinnon is an Australian artist and filmmaker working mainly in rural communities. Over the past 15 years, his work has encompassed oral history, urban planning, public and community art projects, critical writing and exhibitions. His current practice is mainly focused around documentary filmmaking and social history, motivated by an appreciation of living memory and local vernacular.

 
     
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John Teasdale – chronicle of a country life: Creation of multi-media works interpreting the films of the late John Teasdale, farmer and cinematographer from Rupanyup in the Victorian Wimmera. (See: http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/john-teasdale-chronicle-of-a-country-life/)

     
         
 

For the Future as Well as the Past: Creation of a film about relationships between Australian and Vietnamese veterans of the Vietnam War in South Australia and the story behind the development of a memorial in Adelaide.

     
         
  Growing Up Two Ways: Research for a book about life at Finniss Springs Aboriginal Mission in the far north of South Australia (in collaboration with Reg Dodd).